Category Archives: Research

Give good feedback, use the research

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In recent years, research has confirmed what most teachers already knew: providing students with meaningful feedback can greatly enhance learning and improve student achievement. Professor James Pennebaker from the University of Texas at Austin has been researching the benefits of frequent testing and the feedback it leads to. He explains that in the history of the study of learning, the role of feedback has always been central.

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Are All Brains Good at Math?

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Spoiler alert…. YES.

Math provokes dread in so many people—yet we are all born with a sense for numbers.

Read all about it: HERE

Learning disabled early death?

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Children with a learning disability in Scotland are more likely to die prematurely – often from treatable causes, a report has found.

The Scottish Learning Disability Observatory (SLDO) study found that 34% of these deaths were avoidable.

Previous research has found that adults with a learning disability were twice as likely to die from preventable illnesses.

Read all about it: HERE

Scan the brain for learning

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For hundreds of years, school and college exams have been used as practical tools to test students’ learning abilities across the globe. Interestingly, a team of researchers from Georgetown University has now claimed that brain scans provide a more accurate measure of students’ learning than the conventional grade or marks-based systems.

The question is how much the students will be able to apply the learning.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia research continues to grow

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The dyscalculia blog reminds us that the research into dyscalculia continues to grow and has some great recent findings. See them in the link for today.

Read all about it: HERE